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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came to inventor Tom Berquist three years ago during a discussion of why kids enjoy revolting things. Says he: "I think they get more control over their environment. The more the parents scream, the more the kids want the candy." Parents are not too keen on the promotional campaign either. Appearing at radio stations around the country to hand out free samples to fans is the Boogerman: an actor costumed as a 6-ft.-tall, green, slimy . . . Oh, yech...
...higher rate -- about four times as many cases of breast cancer after they used the combination for six or more years. Medical experts point out that parts of this report contradict some earlier evidence and that data on many more women must be collected before the Swedish results are either confirmed or refuted. Nonetheless, the study injects new doubts into the already difficult choices that women must make concerning which hormones, if any, to take...
...Zapp's walk-on particularly illustrates, Lodge has more verve in academic settings than in his conscientiously worked-up factory scenes, and naturally so. He taught literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960 to 1987, and still holds an honorary chair there. But in either sphere his writing displays the wicked eye of a born satirist. Swallow's smile exposes teeth set at odd angles, "like tombstones in a neglected churchyard." A receptionist at Vic's factory strokes her platinum-blond hairdo "as if it were an ailing pet." This is a novel that lives...
Lawyers for plaintiffs also accuse the insurers of more dastardly deeds. Says Daniel Cathcart, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who specializes in air disasters: "Either directly after the accident or a little later, as soon as the insurance companies know who the survivors are, they will dispatch a team of investigators to find out your financial situation, whom you're sleeping with and the status of your married life. Then they'll use this evidence to try to intimidate and embarrass you in court." Following the 1985 crash in Dallas, Delta was criticized for prying into the lives of passengers...
More survivors might have walked away from the latest DC-10 disasters had they been sitting in safer seats required by the Federal Aviation Administration in all new aircraft. About half of all passenger injuries in survivable accidents result from the seat either slamming down on its occupant or breaking loose. The new seat can tolerate velocity changes of up to 16Gs, or a force of 16 times the occupant's body weight, an improvement from the current level of 9Gs. The agency will soon propose that older planes be refitted with these new seats...